Bases of the Scientific Miracles in Quran & Sunnah
The scientific miracle is the science that looks in the miracles in the Quran & Sunnah which were recently discovered in the age of science. Allah Almighty is the one who descended Qur’an to be valid in every time and place and He put in that book many scientific facts so that human can’t author a similar book to that divine book.
What are the benefits of scientific miracles?
We can identify five benefits as the following:
1.To increase faith of believers.
2.To persuade atheists and disbelievers that Qur’an is the book of Allah Almighty and that it is sincere. Also, a proof that conformance between Qur’an and science in the era of science is an evidence that Qur’an is preserved by Allah Almighty and it was not exposed to any kind of distortions at any time for more than 1400 years.
3.To increase believer’s realization concerning the scientific field on a basis of faith not like what western people are believing as they used to present these scientific facts from the atheism point of view as they claim that everything was done by nature not by a great creator who says about Himself:(Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the Wakil (Trustee, Disposer of affairs, Guardian, etc.)over all things)
{Sûrat Az-Zumar - The Groups –verse 62}.
4.To be a scientific method for calling to Allah to both Muslims and non-Muslims.
5.To demonstrate that Qur’an and sayings of prophet Mohamed peace be upon him contains many sciences in different fields.
The Qur’an has a magnificent and concise technique in demonstrating the scientific fact; we can find lot of scientific facts in just few words.
This is the point of inimitability as these facts were not known at the time of Qur’an but discoveries of scientists displayed these miracles. Hence, a group of rules should be existed to control that kind of science to put us apart of mistakes or the exaggeration in understanding meanings of different verses in the Qur’an.
Bases of the Scientific Miracles
1.While searching in the miracles of Qur’an from the scientific side, we have to know and to be sure that science is a follower to Qur’an not the opposite. So the researcher should give his trust first to the Qur’an, after that he or she can search in other books and researches to find scientific facts that are in conformance with the koranic facts.
2.Researchers and readers on the scientific miracles of Qur’an must know that explanation of the verses considering the scientific point are changing and evolving according to the development of sciences and that without any kind of contradictions with science itself, so we find that these scientific explanations are valid in every time from time to time where we find that human books are valid only for a short period of time and is limited only to the time of its release.
3.Allah Almighty descended the Qur’an in Arabic language so that we should not deviate from the meaning of the Arabic words in the dictionary and if we can’t conform between the verse and the scientific fact, we should stop contemplating in that verse and wait till other people in another time to understand the right meaning of the verse which is in conformance with science .Miracle in Qur’an is clear and doesn’t need any kind of complicated interpretations as He Almighty says: (Alif-Lam-Ra. (This is) a Book, the Verses whereof are perfected and then explained in detail from One (Allah), Who is All-Wise and Well-Acquainted (with all things).){Sûrat Hûd -Prophet Hûd- verse1 }
Also we shouldn’t deal with that matter in hastiness and say our own opinion but we have to be controlled by language, explanation and the sincere supplication to Allah Almighty and that work must be for the sake of Allah without to waiting any reward from anyone.
4.We have to believe that Qur’an is the balance so if a theory is in conformance with Qur’an, then the theory is right and if that theory is against the Qur’an so it is a wrong theory. That is because there is no absolute right or wrong in the Experimental sciences as you can find a right theory at a time but after a short period of time the same theory became wrong.
5.The Holy Qur’an speaks only about scientific facts not myths so the researcher must know that the discovered scientific fact which is a miracle in Qur’an or Sunnah should not be known when Qur’an was descended. On the other hand we have to know that there are many known facts in Qur’an from past times like benefits of honey which is a known fact from thousands of years, but He Almighty included this fact in the Holy book of Qur’an as a proof that this book includes only right facts because people during years of civilizations used to mix facts with myths and legends. Therefore if Qur’an is a human made, we might find mixes of right and wrong facts inside it.
6.Concerning the scientific miracle in the Sunnah , the Hadith should be “Sahih” or “Hassan” so we don’t rely on a “weak” Hadith only if the
” weak” Hadith is in conformance with recent science because the “weak” Hadith doesn’t mean that it is wrong or not stated by prophet Mohamed peace be upon him but it means that there is a small possibility of that Hadith to be a right Hadith so we shouldn’t ignore it.
7.The researcher in the scientific miracle in Qur’an should know that the best one to explain Qur’an is the Qur’an itself then the Hadiths of the prophet and after that endeavors of old followers of the prophet peace be up on him and who followed those followers of the many considerable scholars.
8.We have to know that the scientific miracle is a target to make us nearer to Allah Almighty and to increase faith of Muslims, here we remember story of prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) as He Almighty says: (And (remember) when Ibrahim (Abraham) said, "My Lord! Show me how you give life to the dead." He (Allah) said: "Do you not believe?" He [Ibrahim (Abraham)] said: "Yes (I believe), but to be stronger in Faith." He said: "Take four birds, then cause them to incline towards you (then slaughter them, cut them into pieces), and then put a portion of them on every hill, and call them, they will come to you in haste. And know that Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise."){Sûrat Al-Baqarah- The Cow-verse 260 }.
Why don’t we discover these facts before the west?
Indeed, the reason is because of the nonfeasance of Muslims who neglect scientific researches. Late Muslims scholars who were perfect in the scientific fields and also who understood the Qur’an in the right way and accepted all divine orders to search in secrets of creation made a magnificent civilization for hundreds of years. Hence we believe that the best way is to build our sciences on bases of belief, because of that we may get many bounties from Allah who says: (Say (O Muhammad ): "All the bounty is in the Hand of Allah; He grants to whom He wills. And Allah is All-Sufficient for His creatures' needs, the All-Knower."){ Sûrat Al-Imrân - The Family of Imran -verse73}
In case of any contradiction between Qur’an and science
We have to know that the one who descended Qur’an is the same one who created universe who is Allah Almighty, so it is impossible that Allah create things in a way and to tell us about these things in a different way in His book.
Therefore, we will find a complete conformance between scientific facts and the Qur’an if we understood both of them in the right way. Hence, if the science is in conformance with the verse so science is right and if not the science is definitely wrong. He Almighty says: (Do they not then consider the Qur'an carefully? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much contradiction.){Sûrat An-Nisâ’- The Women-verse82}
Bases of the numeric miracle
For more than one thousand years and Muslims scholars are searching in the numeric side of the Holy Qur’an, so that they counted verses, words and letters of Qur’an and tried to reach position of the middle of the Qur’an. But these statistics missed the needed accuracy because the scarcity of accurate statistical tools.
Old researchers used to commit a mistake which is the searching for the numerical symbols by substituting each letter by a number and to use the resulted number to come up to a specific result or a date of an event.
The most famous kind of symbols is “the sentences calculation” that was used by many old researchers, but what about this kind of calculation?
It depends on the substitution of each letter by a number so they used to replace:” alf”(A) by 1 , “baa”(B)by 2 and” taa”(c)by 3 etc… and the numbering differs from a civilization to another.
The problem is that this method doesn’t depend on any scientific base and it doesn’t provide any answer to why “alf” takes 1 and “ baa” takes 2 and “ taa” takes 3 etc……
In fact using this kind of researching doesn’t comply with the Islamic sharia so we should be away of this kind of researching.
Exaggerations that should be left away
Researchers in the numeric miracle in Qur’an may concentrate their efforts in searching between numbers and may overstate their finding; here they leave some other important sides about miracles in the Qur’an such as legislative miracle or the rhetorical miracle.
Hence, researcher should know that the numeric miracle is a small part of the many miracles in Qur’an and also must believe that both numeric and rhetorical miracles are existed in all words and letters of Qur’an.
Benefits of the numeric miracle
Some people used to minimize the importance of studying the numeric miracle and some of them are researchers and scientists as they believe that it is more important to study some koranic sciences such as: explanation, Islamic jurisprudence, worships, etc……
But we believe that this time is the era of numbers and technology advancement as this era is called the era of numeric technology as figures and numbers controls life of people and because Qur’an is valid in all time so that by exerting efforts we can find a numeric miracle in it as a challenge for all humanity.
So, the aim behind the search and study of the numeric miracle is to increase our faith by the language of this era, Allah Almighty says: (and the believers may increase in Faith){Sûrat Al-Muddaththir - The One Enveloped –verse31}. This miracle is a method to strengthen believe of believers as He Almighty says :( And that no doubts may be left for the people of the Scripture and the believers) {Sûrat Al-Muddaththir - The One Enveloped –verse31}
But those who don’t believe in the Qur’an and don’t consider that this holy book contain miracles, Allah says about people who are like them: (and that those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) and the disbelievers may say: "What Allah intends by this (curious) example?) {Sûrat Al-Muddaththir - The One Enveloped –verse31}
Today, we can find many people who attack Qur’an and claim that this book is not a divine act but it is a human made; here the hard mission of the numeric miracle appears as He Almighty says: (Do they not then consider the Qur'an carefully? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein many contradictions.){Sûrat An-Nisâ’- The Women –verse82}.
We confirm that this numeric miracle doesn’t exist at any other book all over the world through all civilizations.
Bases of the numeric miracle
Because we are studying the Holly book of Allah and to be apart of any doubt, some rules and bases should be used while searching in the numeric miracle of the Qur’an.
Any scientific research consists of three elements: data, methodology and results .data is the base of the research, if data are right and methodology
Is used in a right way the result will be definitely right and vice versa.
Principles of the data
data should be extracted from the Qur’an itself and not from any other source, the book of Allah is rich by many secrets and wonders so we don’t have to use any other source than the Qur’an, from one verse we can extract lot of information such as: number of words in the verse, number of letters in the verse, repeating of a word in the entire Qur’an etc……
Also the used technique should be consistent not to be according to the desire of the researcher without any scientific or legitimate base.
Principles of the methodology
Allah Almighty says about Qur’an: (Alif-Lam-Ra. (This is) a Book, the Verses whereof are perfected and then explained in detail from One (Allah), Who is All-Wise and Well-Acquainted (with all things).){Sûrat Hûd -Prophet Hûd- verse1} so, the used methodology should be based on scientific and legitimate base.
But some researchers used to adopt nonscientific approaches: sometimes they make an addition, another time they use subtraction and they may use multiplication or division. Also they may erase the repeated letters to adjust their calculation according to their own desire.
Here, we should alert Muslims that some researchers may use figures in the Qur’an to make a future prediction but that is definitely unaccepted because He Almighty says: (And with Him are the keys of the Ghaib (all that is hidden), none knows them but He){ Sûrat Al-An’âm - The Cattle -verse59}.
Hence the used methodology should be constant all the way without a change from verse to verse or Sûrat to another.
Principles of the results
The research must provide a result which contains a real miracle not by coincidence through mathematical probability rules.
Also the researcher should be alert that numbers in the numeric miracle is a method to see the numeric structure in the Qur’an and seeing that structure is the target not the numbers itself. Also researcher should not use these numbers in prediction for future events and not to use it as an indication for any political or any other event.
We believe that Qur’an contains all sciences and also it contains the past and the future, but the researcher must be careful and patient and should not fall in the trap to deduct the future or the unseen because if that deduction doesn’t happen in the future, that will be a chance for atheists and disbelievers to stimulate doubts not only about scientific miracle science but about the Qur’an and Islam itself.
("Our Lord Let not our hearts deviate (from the truth) after You have guided us, and grant us mercy from You. Truly, you are the Bestower.") { Sûrat Al-Imrân -The Family of Imran -verse8}
